I am at a high-beginner/low-intermediate level in Python, and one thing that drives me nuts is how poorly I am able to read the Python official documentation and grok how to use the described code.
What’s the secret? Are there any guides/videos/books that can help my understand how to approach reading it? Or, is it just one of those things that I need to just keep coming back to while coding, and eventually I will get the hang of it?
I feel the same and I’ve been using Python for years professionally. It’s the lack of examples for me; usually functions and classes aren’t meant to be used as-is but rather fed as an argument into some other function or class, and this info is seldom portrayed in the func’s documentation. E.g. the documentation of
BaseHTTPRequestHandleris one that I trip over every single time, I have to resort to reading the source code ofSimpleHTTPRequestHandlerto remember how handlers are supposed to be defined 🐺Well put. I also hate that it always dives into edge cases but never explains the basics.
You just exactly put into words why I find it so challenging!